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According to the Kabuki Actor Directory, Ichimura Uzaemon XV was adopted at the age of five by Bandō Kakitsu I, made his stage debut in 1881, took the name Ichimura Kakitsu VI in 1893 and Ichimura Uzaemon XV in 1903. His roles included Kirare Yosa, Naozamurai, Sukeroku and Togashi in Kanjinchō, and in 1943 he became the first president of the Greater Japan Actors' Association.

Ichimura Uzaemon XVII (1916–2001) came from the Bandō family, performing as Bandō Kamezō III, Bandō Shinsui VII and Bandō Hikosaburō VII before taking the seventeenth generation of the name at the Kabukiza in October 1955 in Ishikiri Kajiwara. Ichimura Manjirō II is his second son, and Ichimura Takematsu VI and Ichimura Hikaru I are Manjirō's first and second sons (Kabuki Actor Directory).

Ichimura Kakitsu XVII, eldest son of Ichimura Kichigorō II, took his name in October 1967. The Directory notes that the eighth Kakitsu was a former name of Onoe Kikugorō V — who with Ichikawa Danjūrō IX dominated the Meiji stage — and the tenth of the celebrated Ichimura Uzaemon XV: a considerable name, bound up with the Ichimura-za of the Edo sanza. The present status of the name Ichimura Uzaemon is not stated in the sources gathered, so this site does not assert it.